The General Secretariat of the National Council for Sustainable Development has the honor to inform the public and the media, both national and international, that the Ministry of Environment, the National Council for Sustainable Development and the National Council of Khmer Language have launched the “Lexicon of Climate Change in Khmer”, in both printed and electronic versions, this afternoon 25 April 2017 at the Ministry of Environment. This is the first time that the government has published a Lexicon for official use of practitioners working in the field of climate change and for the public in general. The Lexicon is meant to support the use of climate change terminology, ensuring its accuracy, consistency and uniformity.

Phnom Penh, 23rd February 2017– The stakeholder consultation workshop on “Draft Financing Strategy for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) of Cambodia” was organized by​Department of Climate Change (DCC), General Secretariat​​ of the NCSD​ and Ministry of Environment in cooperation with GIZ, and financed by the United States Agency for International Development​ (USAID) with participation of 44 representatives from 23 line ministries, agencies and development partners under chairmanship of H.E. Chuop Paris, Deputy Secretary General of NCSD and Mr. Thomas Waldraff, Country Director of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Cambodia at Himawari Hotel. The event aims to present financial options, identify available financial resources from national and international levels in the context of climate finance readiness and particularly gather comments and feedback on the draft financing strategy, and develop an implementation plan for the identified priority actions for the NAP.